Or, God, maybe this was just life. For everyone on the planet. Maybe the Survivor’s Club wasn’t something you “earned,” but simply what you were born into when you came out of your mother’s womb....

The essential truth of life, he was coming to realize, wasn’t romantic an took only two words to label: Shit. Happens.

Stercus accidit.

Free-will doesn’t include shit-happens,unless that’s the goal of one’s intention.

Some days you were the bitch and some days you were shit that came out of the bitch’s toy poodle. Today was one of those days I was the latter.

Didn’t Chains tell you about the Golden Theological Principle?””The what?””The single congruent aspect of every known religion. The one shared, universal assumption about the human condition.””What is it?””He said that life boils down to standing...

The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.

Plans change, Iktomi said. Got a plan that doesn’t require explosives.Are you confident in that? Mangas asked.I’m a god, Iktomi replied. I’m always confident.I’m a human, Mangas thought, and we know shit happens.

There is always somebody about to ruin your day, if not your life.

Life happens. Shit happens. And it happens a lot. To a lot of people.

You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn’t know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and...